Lavinia Planitia

A trio of impact craters in Lavinia Planitia, a lowland plain in the southern hemisphere of Venus, shown in a computer-generated image created from Magellan spacecraft radar data. Named (clockwise, from foreground) Saskia, Danilova, and Aglaonice, they range between about 40 and 60 km (25 and 40 miles) across and are of average size for the planet. The craters’ surrounding ejecta blankets stand out as bright (and hence comparatively rough) terrain in the radar image. Added colour is based on surface images taken by Soviet Venera landers.